Governments and companies scrambled to patch critical flaws in PHP, the programming language underpinning roughly 70% of websites, after artificial-intelligence tools helped uncover vulnerabilities that could enable remote code execution. The FBI urged operators unable to update immediately to take sites offline, while the EU’s ENISA advised swift remediation. The U.K., Japan and Finland reported temporary service disruptions as fixes rolled out; Cloudflare said millions of exploit attempts followed public disclosure. The PHP Foundation released patches late Wednesday, and OpenAI—coordinating researchers and security firms—said AI appeared to identify the weaknesses before attackers did, reducing the risk of widespread compromise.
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